Many of those who held to their principles and rejected "lesser of two evils" and "existential threat" justifications in 2016 have missed their opportunity to revitalize conservatism in the post-Trump era by tainting their conservative witness through embracing those same narratives towards a different end in 2020. Segment 3 of Episode 8:

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